MySQL Bugs: #113954: Workbench steals focus when opening a saved workspace

Bug #113954	Workbench steals focus when opening a saved workspace
Submitted:	11 Feb 2024 13:55	Modified:	26 Feb 7:57
Reporter:	Dagh Bunnstad	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	8.0.33 buld 2947366 CE (64-bits), 8.0.40	OS:	Windows (Windows 11 Pro 22H2)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	x86 (Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz)
Tags:	focus, workbench, workspace

Description:
Workbench continuously steals focus when opening a saved workspace.

If you have many tabs open in that workspace MySQL will keep stealing focus rendering the whole OS unusable and considering how innefficient the tab opening appears to be it's a real issue.

Since Workbench often (weekly to daily) randomly crashes with assertion errors (see e.g. Bug #113459), it makes this problem even worse.

How to repeat:
1. Open a new workspace/connection.

2. Open x number of tabs, where x is dependent on the performance of your computer, enough for it to take multiple seconds or even minutes to open a saved workspace.

3. Try to do anything else in your OS while Workbench is restoring the workspace.

4. You can't.

Suggested fix:
The fix is simple:
1. Don't steal focus.

And optionally:
2. Don't render opening every saved tab when opening a workspace, only after all tabs are open does one have to render them.

Fixed synopsis

Hello Dagh Bunnstad,

Thank you for the bug report.
I tried to reproduce your issue on windows 11 with workbench 8.0.36 but I am not seeing any issues at my end.

Regards,
Ashwini Patil

I supplied a demonstration video file, has anyone looked at it?

Same problem in 8.0.40.

Thank you for the feedback.
Verifying this report for now as I observed this with WB 8.0.40 on Windows.

regards,
Umesh

Apparently it only happens most of the time, because I just restored the workspace after crash (#113459) and it restored without issue (i.e. fully in the background while I did something else). Computer freshly restarted, so restored a lot quicker than what I showed earlier.